Friday, August 5, 2011

Chinatown Boardroom is pleased to present Chemical Imbalance, a solo exhibition featuring alternative processed surf photography by Elizabeth Pepin Silva. Opening reception will be held on First Friday, August 5th, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., 2011. This show will run for the month of August. Silva prefers the magic of film and in the past few years has been exploring alternative process photography. She utilizes a variety of film stock, cheap cameras, and developing and printing techniques, including using garbage found on Oahu’s beaches instead of photographic paper to produce unique photographic sculptural pieces.

Over the years Silva’s photographs have appeared in numerous museums, galleries, newspapers and magazines around the world, and in five books on women's surfing including: Surfing: The New World Order (Duke University Press 2010) and Surfing: Women of the Waves (Gibbs Smith Publishers 2008). Silva states “I am constantly fascinated by water and the people who are attracted to it; the ever changing light and mood of the water, and the unique connection people have to the ocean.”

A separate meet the artist event will take place on Friday August 19th, 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. This will be an opportunity to meet Silva and discuss photography.

Silva is also a documentary filmmaker and writer whose works include award winning films: Coastal Clash, a PBS documentary on problems facing our coastlines, and One Winter Story, an hour-long look at the life of big wave surfer and scientist Sarah Gerhardt, and her book Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era (published 2006).

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Chinatown Boardroom is pleased to present Hello Chinatown a solo exhibition featuring Koji Toyoda. Opening reception will be held on First Friday, July 1st 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., 2011, show runs for the month of July. Hello Chinatown will feature new works by Toyoda including surfboards, this collection of “happy” surf art, his art will make you feel good and bring a smile to your face. (A portion of the proceeds from the show will be donated to the victims of the March 2011 Japan Tsunami.)

Toyoda was born in Osaka Japan in 1962; he began surfing in his early teenage years. Toyoda held his first art exhibition at the Huntington Beach International Surfing Museum in 1997. In the surf art community Toyoda has become internationally renown. Over the years he developed a deep appreciation and fascination with surf lifestyle and surf culture. Toyoda’s artistic style expresses his surf-inspired feelings and messages about the environment, life and the ocean.

About Me

Chinatown Boardroom was born in the winter of 2006. A surf shop / art gallery located in the arts district of Chinatown; surrounded by high-rises and concrete it is a surf shop located in an unlikely spot. Specializing in custom culture, low brow, surf art and unique limited gift items: surfboards, fins, jewelry, wallets, tees, books and more.